Smasharoo wrote:
That was within the first 15 or so out of 500 comments. There were other "Mandela was great" comments as well. The idea that there isn't hate and bile on every conservative site with unmoderated comments is idiotic, though. I imagine Mother Jones or Salon has some analog, although it's likely not as racist, what with the GOP being the party of white racists by a massively overwhelming margin.
Kinda the point. We're talking about comments. Which, not surprisingly, can be written by anyone. My question was why one would make a point about comments on a "right wing" source versus "left wing" (or whatever). It's a silly point to make, but it is interesting that it ties into an incredibly consistent narrative I've seen today. Do a google search on Nelson Mandela and about half of the results will be liberal sources talking about how bad conservatives are for <insert some negative thing about or regarding Madela here>.
It's like someone decided that this would be the narrative in the aftermath of the man's death. Not the things he did, but let's make hay about how racist/evil/bigoted conservatives are. It would be merely annoying if this wasn't such a consistent thing. So yeah, I think it's a pretty weak bit of following to try to make a point about this when there really isn't any point to make at all. It's use of cherry picked data to support a gross case of confirmation bias.